The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Mindfulness is living in the moment without judging it.

Halloween is a day when we all get to fool people into thinking we're someone else. Or as Mitt Romney calls it, campaigning.

To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

Dreams change, yes, that makes sense, but I didn't know dreams could hide inside a person.

I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.

I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.

May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop before children.

Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.

I'm so excited I had a seven-car police motorcycle escort. I've had escorts before, but nothing like this... I'm really in awe, coming here and seeing so many cars, so much enthusiasm.